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Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain

Tells the story of how Latino Health Access developed its groundbreaking model of peer-to-peer outreach and education in Santa Ana, California to address health problems exacerbated by poverty and discrimination. Their strategies and accomplishments will inspire change across an increasingly unhealthy America.

Workers' Guide to Health and Safety

Shows how workers can assess their workplaces, recognize hazards, and take charge of their health and safety, especially in electronics, shoe, and garment factories. Focuses on developing actionable alternatives to hazardous conditions and organizing for improvements.

Where There Is No Doctor

The most widely-used health care manual for health workers, educators, and others involved in primary health care and health promotion around the world. Current edition includes updated information on malaria, HIV, and more.

Advance Chapters from the NEW Where There Is No Doctor

These are the first chapters completed of an all new, 21st-century edition of our hallmark publication.Topics include nutrition, belly pain and diarrhea, water and sanitation, and care for pregnant women, newborns, and children.

A Book for Midwives

A vital resource for practicing midwives and midwifery training programs around the world, this book covers the essentials of care before, during, and after birth. Updated to reflect new WHO/UNICEF guidelines for mothers and newborns.

Helping Health Workers Learn

An indispensable resource for health educators, this book provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory education.

A Community Guide to Environmental Health

This guide contains information, activities, stories, and instructions for simple technologies that help health promoters, environmental activists, and community leaders take charge of their environmental health.

Disabled Village Children

This manual contains a wealth of clear and detailed information along with easy-to-implement strategies for all who are concerned about the well being of children with disabilities, especially those living in communities with limited resources.

Helping Children Who Are Blind

The simple and engaging activities in this book can help parents, caregivers, teachers, health workers, rehabilitation workers, and others help a child with vision problems develop all of his or her capabilities.

Helping Children Who Are Deaf

This groundbreaking book, packed with activities on how to foster language learning through both sign and oral approaches, supports parents and other caregivers in building the communication skills of babies and young children.

A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities

Developed with the participation of women with disabilities in 42 countries, this guide helps women to overcome the barriers of social stigma and inadequate care to improve their general health, self-esteem, and independence.

HIV, Health and Your Community

A clear and thorough guide for health workers confronting the HIV pandemic in their communities, topics include designing prevention programs, and using language that is accessible to those with little medical training.

Health and Empowerment Bookshelf

Through our work, we find great resources on health and community empowerment written by like-minded organizations. We offer some of these hard-to-find titles by other publishers for sale on our “Health and Empowerment Bookshelf.”

The Childbirth Picture Book

The Childbirth Picture Book provides a simple and complete guide to the basics of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. This 67-page book contains 34 pages of detailed line drawings depicting every step of the reproductive process. Also available in Spanish, French and Arabic.

Sanitation and Cleanliness

This resource offers information on basic sanitation and hygiene, including instructions on building safe, affordable, environmentally-friendly sanitation systems, as well as learning activities to help communities understand and prevent sanitation-related health problems.

Water for Life

Pesticides are Poison

This resource provides detailed information about pesticides and addresses how to treat people in pesticide emergencies and reduce harm caused by pesticides. It also offers alternate pest control methods that do not use harmful chemicals.

Working Together to Stop Obstetric Fistula

How to prevent fistula and the devastating social, economic and health problems caused by it are explained in this pamphlet. It includes information on the surgery to repair fistula and where to get it.

Women's Health Exchange

Hesperian Flyers and Posters

Featured flyers and posters include: Cholera Prevention Fact Sheet, Safe Handling of Health Care Waste, Fighting Factory Fires, and Danger Signs of Childbirth. If you have created a flyer or poster using Hesperian materials, please send it to us at [email protected]!

Resources from other organizations

Links to additional resources on topics including community health, HIV, people with disabilities, women’s health, nutrition, and others can be found on this page, organized by topic, in the Hesperian HealthWiki.

How to prevent fistula and the devastating social, economic and health problems caused by it are explained in this pamphlet. It includes information on the surgery to repair fistula and where to get it. Please support expanding this project.